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We don't treat Chinese people this way in our countries. This kind of limit basically is the government telling us that we create trouble. Which we don't. The average student in Wudaokou give 0 shit about their political gathering.

China knows it can’t compete with japan in art or culture. That ship sailed nearly 170 years ago, when Europeans realized that the Japanese were much more open to different forms of expression besides boring scenes of nature.

Honestly, I don't give a shit about the xenophobia. The real loss of face is how this is as ineffective as it is ham-fisted. It's as if the US responded to gun violence by issuing a temporary ban on the sale of violent games in Florida.

It's almost as if they don't actually want to do anything, or that they don't actually know what they should do. So instead, they just do a big dumb thing that says THIS IS SUPER SERIOUS GUYS DONT FUCK THIS UP FOR US.

This is playing to the home crowd more than it's doing anything else. The locals are getting annoyed that those dirty niggers pinkies are breathing their air and they want big brother to put those niggers whities in their place. You had similar rules in segregation era USA and it had nothing to do with gaining soft power abroad.

“We’ve never issued such a notice. We merely told bars and restaurants to control the total number of customers during peak hours, without making any specific requirements,” the officer said, adding that such reminders are common.

Translation: We heavily implied to limit foreigners, but that stupid foreigner didn't understand, so we had to go so far as to tell them to limit foreigners. Now the asshole is saying that we told him to limit foreigners. We'd ask him to drink tea for bringing this negative attention on us, but he'd probably just think that we like him or something!

Beijing police order limit on foreigners in university district pizza bars and cafes
Restaurants in Wudaokou in the capital’s north say they have been told to not to allow more than 10 foreigners in at any one time

Police are checking various popular student hangouts in Beijing’s university district to make sure they have no more than 10 foreigners inside at any one time, as the stability-obsessed authorities ramp up security for China’s biggest annual political gathering.

Security is usually tight in the capital during important political events, with petitioners kept at arm’s length and activists kept under close watch.

But this time, the focus is also on foreign students in Wudaokou, in the city’s north.

Three restaurants and bars in the area said police had told them in the last week to keep out big groups of foreigners until two days after the end of the annual session of the National People’s Congress.

“Until March 22, every Friday night and Saturday, as requested by local authorities, we can only allow a maximum of 10 foreigners in our store at a time,” a notice at one pizzeria said.

An employee at the restaurant said the police made the request in person before the weekend, and had returned for regular checks since then.

“We were told that if we did not comply, our business would be shut down immediately,” she said.

A similar notice was posted on the wall at a nearby cafe.

Restaurants in Wudaokou in the capital’s north say they have been told to not to allow more than 10 foreigners in at any one time.
A manager said the police issued the notice last Monday, the first day of the NPC.

She said no reason was given for the restriction on foreigners.

But an officer at the Dongsheng police station, which oversees Wudaokou, denied that it had imposed any limits on the number of foreign customers.

“We’ve never issued such a notice. We merely told bars and restaurants to control the total number of customers during peak hours, without making any specific requirements,” the officer said, adding that such reminders are common.

But he did acknowledge that security had been stepped up during the annual legislative and political advisory meetings.

“[Security control] is definitely normal practice, but everything is stricter during the two sessions,” the officer said.

The three restaurants contacted by the South China Morning Post confirmed that there was a general cap on customer numbers, but added that the restriction on foreigners was also being strictly enforced.

“We can’t let foreigners in our door after 8pm,” said an employee at a pizza shop.

“There are police officers patrolling outside every night. Plus, there are security cameras everywhere in the restaurant and on the street – the feeds are all connected to police stations.”

Fernando, a 23-year-old Master’s student at Peking University who lives in Wudaokou, said he found these measures racist.

“I can understand the party doesn’t want any tumults or incidents to make it ‘lose face’ during such an important time, but it’s a discriminatory measure against foreigners,” he said.

“It’s not that we’re going to be the ones that are starting a revolution to get rid of the party.”

A frequent customer of both the pizzeria and cafe, he added that their customers are predominantly foreigners.

Malcolm Surer, 25, also a student at Peking University, said the measures were in line with the government’s ongoing efforts to clean up Wudaokou and other bar areas in the city.

Before the Communist Party’s five-yearly national congress in October, many bars and clubs in Sanlitun, a nightlife district in eastern Beijing, were forced to close for about 10 days.

“We’ve never issued such a notice. We merely told bars and restaurants to control the total number of customers during peak hours, without making any specific requirements,” the officer said, adding that such reminders are common.

China has so many laws that it can choose to enforce any one of them at any time to achieve the desired effect.

There are so many foreigners in Wudaokou, where exactly are they all supposed to go? Whenever I go down there I can see foreigners everywhere, especially in the foreign run places. Glad I didn't have to put up with that bullshit when I lived in the area.

Nope. I have several Japanese and Korean friends who speak Chinese worse than me and even when it’s demonstrated many Chinese keep expecting the Asian person to somehow surpass me since I’m white. Granted my 100% American Asian friends can’t get jobs teaching English here even with Masters and PHDs so it racism all around.

When I saw the initial reports of that on Reddit, I was skeptical, thinking it was isolated cases, maybe some very local bullshit. I didn't want to give accusation of racial seggregation without heavy evidence.

I think this is an enlightened policy. Xi is telling our wayward foreigners in China that they should be spending more time doing productive activities rather than eating mediocre pizza and drinking overpriced coffee. Xi Jinping and the CPC have your best interest at heart, Laowai, so stop acting like an entitled five year old brat.